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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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31 Jan 2006 08:12:00 PM |
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Women die to avoid being raped by Christian men |
A number of women have died in Iraq because they wouldn't drink water
in the evening for fear of being raped by Christian men -- some 80%
and higher of the military baby killers in Iraq are Christian.
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GOD BLESS AMERIKA!
Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Report
Monday 30 January 2006
In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison
testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military
commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some
female American soldiers serving in Iraq.
Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of
Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in
New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to
drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even
raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women's latrine after dark.
The latrine for female soldiers at Camp Victory wasn't located near their
barracks, so they had to go outside if they needed to use the bathroom.
"There were no lights near any of their facilities, so women were doubly
easy targets in the dark of the night," Karpinski told retired US Army Col.
David Hackworth in a September 2004 interview. It was there that male
soldiers assaulted and raped women soldiers. So the women took matters into
their own hands. They didn't drink in the late afternoon so they wouldn't
have to urinate at night. They didn't get raped. But some died of
dehydration in the desert heat, Karpinski said.
Karpinski testified that a surgeon for the coalition's joint task force
said in a briefing that "women in fear of getting up in the hours of
darkness to go out to the port-a-lets or the latrines were not drinking
liquids after 3 or 4 in the afternoon, and in 120 degree heat or warmer,
because there was no air-conditioning at most of the facilities, they were
dying from dehydration in their sleep."
"And rather than make everybody aware of that - because that's shocking,
and as a leader if that's not shocking to you then you're not much of a
leader - what they told the surgeon to do is don't brief those details
anymore. And don't say specifically that they're women. You can provide
that in a written report but don't brief it in the open anymore."
For example, Maj. Gen. Walter Wojdakowski, Sanchez's top deputy in Iraq,
saw "dehydration" listed as the cause of death on the death certificate of
a female master sergeant in September 2003. Under orders from Sanchez, he
directed that the cause of death no longer be listed, Karpinski stated. The
official explanation for this was to protect the women's privacy rights.
Sanchez's attitude was: "The women asked to be here, so now let them take
what comes with the territory," Karpinski quoted him as saying. Karpinski
told me that Sanchez, who was her boss, was very sensitive to the political
ramifications of everything he did. She thinks it likely that when the
information about the cause of these women's deaths was passed to the
Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld ordered that the details not be released. "That's
how Rumsfeld works," she said.
"It was out of control," Karpinski told a group of students at Thomas
Jefferson School of Law last October. There was an 800 number women could
use to report sexual assaults. But no one had a phone, she added. And no
one answered that number, which was based in the United States. Any woman
who successfully connected to it would get a recording. Even after more
than 83 incidents were reported during a six-month period in Iraq and
Kuwait, the 24-hour rape hot line was still answered by a machine that told
callers to leave a message.
"There were countless such situations all over the theater of operations -
Iraq and Kuwait - because female soldiers didn't have a voice, individually
or collectively," Karpinski told Hackworth. "Even as a general I didn't
have a voice with Sanchez, so I know what the soldiers were facing. Sanchez
did not want to hear about female soldier requirements and/or issues."
Karpinski was the highest officer reprimanded for the Abu Ghraib torture
scandal, although the details of interrogations were carefully hidden from
her. Demoted from Brigadier General to Colonel, Karpinski feels she was
chosen as a scapegoat because she was a female.
Sexual assault in the US military has become a hot topic in the last few
years, "not just because of the high number of rapes and other assaults,
but also because of the tendency to cover up assaults and to harass or
retaliate against women who report assaults," according to Kathy Gilberd,
co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild's Military Law Task Force.
This problem has become so acute that the Army has set up its own sexual
assault web site.
In February 2004, Rumsfeld directed the Under Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness to undertake a 90-day review of sexual assault
policies. "Sexual assault will not be tolerated in the Department of
Defense," Rumsfeld declared.
The 99-page report was issued in April 2004. It affirmed, "The chain of
command is responsible for ensuring that policies and practices regarding
crime prevention and security are in place for the safety of service
members." The rates of reported alleged sexual assault were 69.1 and 70.0
per 100,000 uniformed service members in 2002 and 2003. Yet those rates
were not directly comparable to rates reported by the Department of
Justice, due to substantial differences in the definition of sexual
assault.
Notably, the report found that low sociocultural power (i.e., age,
education, race/ethnicity, marital status) and low organizational power
(i.e., pay grade and years of active duty service) were associated with an
increased likelihood of both sexual assault and sexual harassment.
The Department of Defense announced a new policy on sexual assault
prevention and response on January 3, 2005. It was a reaction to media
reports and public outrage about sexual assaults against women in the US
military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and ongoing sexual assaults and cover-ups
at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, Gilberd said. As a result, Congress
demanded that the military review the problem, and the Defense
Authorization Act of 2005 required a new policy be put in place by January
1.
The policy is a series of very brief "directive-type memoranda" for the
Secretaries of the military services from the Under Secretary of Defense
for Personnel and Readiness. "Overall, the policy emphasizes that sexual
assault harms military readiness, that education about sexual assault
policy needs to be increased and repeated, and that improvements in
response to sexual assaults are necessary to make victims more willing to
report assaults," Gilberd notes. "Unfortunately," she added "analysis of
the issues is shallow, and the plans for addressing them are limited."
Commands can reject the complaints if they decide they aren't credible, and
there is limited protection against retaliation against the women who come
forward, according to Gilberd. "People who report assaults still face
command disbelief, illegal efforts to protect the assaulters, informal
harassment from assaulters, their friends or the command itself," she said.
But most shameful is Sanchez's cover-up of the dehydration deaths of women
that occurred in Iraq. Sanchez is no stranger to outrageous military
orders.
He was heavily involved in the torture scandal that surfaced at Abu Ghraib.
Sanchez approved the use of unmuzzled dogs and the insertion of prisoners
head-first into sleeping bags after which they are tied with an electrical
cord and their are mouths covered. At least one person died as the result
of the sleeping bag technique. Karpinski charges that Sanchez attempted to
hide the torture after the hideous photographs became public.
Sanchez reportedly plans to retire soon, according to an article in the
International Herald Tribune earlier this month. But Rumsfeld recently
considered elevating the 3-star general to a 4-star. The Tribune also
reported that Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the Army's chief spokesman, said
in an email message, "The Army leaders do have confidence in LTG Sanchez."
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"As I stand here right now, I can tell the American people the program's
legal, it's designed to protect civil liberties, and it's necessary."
-- George W. Bush on his felonious domestic espionage treason against us.
The Bush twins: Born with a silver coke spoon up their noses: Traditional
Christian Family Values at its finest
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| User: "HellPope Huey" |
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| Title: Re: Women die to avoid being raped by Christian men |
01 Feb 2006 11:52:44 AM |
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Fredric L. Rice wrote:
A number of women have died in Iraq because they wouldn't drink water
in the evening for fear of being raped by Christian men -- some 80%
and higher of the military baby killers in Iraq are Christian.
Women die to avoid having sex with Frederic L. Rice. TOO EASY!
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HellPope Huey
A figment of your defragmentation
"If you're driving a car
with a bunch of computer mumbo-jumbo,
then they can shut your car off with a satellite.
That's how they are going to get you, man.
That's why you have to drive a car with a carburetor."
~ Jesse James, host of "Monster Garage"
"Roll those windows up,
you're lettin' the smoke out."
~ Margaret Smith
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| User: "Roy. Just Roy." |
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| Title: Re: Women die to avoid being raped by Christian men |
01 Feb 2006 11:55:37 AM |
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Women die to avoid having sex with Frederic L. Rice. TOO EASY!
My ex lied to avoid having sex with me. How a woman can be on her
period for 8 months straight and not bleed to death, I'll never know.
/Roy
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